<p>suleyman, congrats on your achievement on 720 M. I thought you had 650-700 before? Very nice jump! Or is it? :)</p>
<p>why did u ask for advice if you think reading books is the best way to prepare for sat?
I feel like you are not appreciating these people who are giving you excellent advices.</p>
<p>I start from 480 and got 630 in CR after 1 month study of SAT.(I am a international high school student)</p>
<p>The first and most is vocab(memorize all the words from word smart 1)
If you got all from sentence completion, even if you did not answer any passage question at all, you can get 480 only by get scores from sentence completion.
The words from sentence completion all comes from world smart.
Here is the vacab book that you should look at.
1.word smart basic
2.word smart 1
3.word smart
Here is a additional vacab book if you are aiming for 2400
4.Barron’s 3500</p>
<p>The second thing is concentrat to find main theme from passage when you read.
Read and do question pragraph by pragraph.</p>
<p>Even I could not solve all problem yet, I got 600 and when I did solve all them by consuming extra time I got 710.</p>
<p>The third thing is working on your speed. I am not native english speaker(I ve been in the States for only 2 years.) So I don’t have chance to read much in English.
I am working on the third step right now…</p>
<p>remember vocab is the most important thing! Got everything from sentence completion.
And additionally, you need to solve 6 sentence completion in 3 minute and 8 in 4 minute.</p>
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It cost me very much. I was preparing with two math teachers only one week. I just made all math in BB; and now I know how to solve similar questions, that’s it. + barron’s 2400’s math section(not all).</p>
<p>veronicajjr,
looks like you are the creator of those “smarts” vocabulary books. I totally disagree with you; the most important vocabulary books are Direct Hits, they give you about 10 correct in S.C; and as Jim Kawagucha said “vocabulary is waste of time”.</p>
<p>Who exactly is “Jim Kawagucha,” Suleyman?</p>
<p>open youtube in search write “sat cr” and you will find Jim Kawashima’s videos about SAT. He is fat asian…maybe from singapore.</p>
<p>did some search on jim kawashima, browsed through some of the vids, which look pretty useless to me because there are no practice on reading passages, and most of the stuff he posted can be learned from a book.</p>
<p>instead, i typed sat cr into the search box and saw this video
[YouTube</a> - SAT Critical Reading - The Art of CR - Final Practice Test](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube) by MrKimJooYong. I spent few mins watching it, and liked it. He used passages from CB source, not sure if that’s legal, but hes from korea so …</p>
<p>yeah…thank you…Actually Jim Kawashima was right: if you can make 10 out from 19 sentence complitions correct you don’t need to study vocabulary.</p>
<p>crazy MrKimJooYoung…</p>
<p>to improve your CR score in a short amount of time, you have to do as much cr sections as possible. Although I shouldn’t be saying this… I’m a bad example.</p>
<p>Here is my structure:
Direct Hits+Rocket Review for sentence complition
BB+explanations for passage-based
Is this all I need?</p>
<p>misleading title… some might actually think you want help and advice…</p>
<p>yeah…sure…right by now…I made that thead once…in precipitation I was “guilty man” and “■■■■■”.</p>
<p>dude if you really want help or advice you gotta be open to things man and not ■■■■■ around and instead of posting so much **** on here “how should i do this”, “is this the right way of doing it” you should rather go and just study man and if people criticize you they have a reason to do so and you should listen to then as opposed to try to argue with them.</p>
<p>Suleyman sir, you are a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>you have just proved my claim…</p>
<p>Have you used <a href=“Freerice - Home”>www.freerice.com?</a> It is a good way to test and build your vocabulary skills and it starts off with easier words and gets harder the more questions you get correct.</p>
<p>Nope. I haven’t. I’m working on RR and 1000 spark.</p>
<p>I think you would enjoy doing it for 5-10 minutes at a time as a break from all the word lists, but it is just a suggestion.</p>
<p>thanks…I suppose you have underated my real level…</p>